God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (66 page)

26
   For an absorbing analysis of Persons’ subsequent state of mind, see Bossy, ‘The Heart of Robert Persons’.

27
   
APC
, XII, pp. 271, 294–5; XIII, p. 144.

28
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 116
n
.

29
   Reynolds,
Campion and Parsons
, pp. 133–4.

30
   Graves,
Thomas Norton
, pp. 275–7; Alford,
Burghley
, p. 241.

31
   Reynolds,
Campion and Parsons
, pp. 179–80; BL Harl MS 859, f. 44r.

32
   ‘Loves Exchange’, cited by Stubbs,
Donne
, p. 93.

33
   Reynolds,
Campion and Parsons
, p. 138.

34
   
APC
, XIII, p. 164; Cross, ‘Letters of Sir Francis Hastings’, pp. 18–19.

35
   
APC
, XIII, pp. 155–6.

3
Lying Lips

1
     Folger MS Bd.w. STC 22957. f. 77v.

2
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 59r; Kingdon,
The Execution of Justice
, p. 12; Alford,
Burghley
, pp. 249–50.

3
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 59r.

4
     PRO KB 9/653, pt. II, ff. 106–7.

5
     Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 2, p. 822.

6
     Ibid., B. 1, p. 4.

7
     Anstruther, p. 278. PRO SP 12/233, f. 21.

8
     Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 2, p. 822.

9
     
APC
, XI, pp. 179–80, 207.

10
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 59r–60r.

11
   Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 2, p. 822.

12
   
APC
, XIII, p. 176.

13
   Ackroyd,
London: The Biography
(2000), pp. 556–7; R. L. Brown,
A History of the Fleet Prison, London
(1996), p. 3; Foxe,
Acts and Monuments
(1583 edn), bk 11, p. 1530; BL Harl MS 78, fo. 24.

14
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 43r, 59r.

15
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 77r; Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 2, pp. 823–36; Persons, ‘Memoirs’, 2, p. 29.

16
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 59r–60r.

17
   Ibid., ff. 60r–61v.

18
   PRO SP 12/233, f. 21.

19
   Ibid., f. 22; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 262r.

20
   For the trial, I have relied upon the eyewitness account in the British Library: BL Harl MS 859, ff. 44–50. There are also two printed versions: Bruce, ‘Observations’, and Simpson, ‘A Morning at the Star-Chamber’. For Mildmay’s speech, see BL Harl MS 6265, ff. 86v–87v (also printed in Bruce, ‘Observations’, pp. 101–4
n
).

21
   TP, pp. 17–19; BL Add. MS 39830, f. 46v.

22
   Kaushik, ‘Resistance, Loyalty and Recusant Politics’, p. 52.

23
   Reynolds,
Campion and Parsons
, p. 201.

4
Worldly Woes

1
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 72v.

2
     Questier,
Catholicism and Community
, pp. 188–90; Challoner,
Memoirs
, p. 113.

3
     PRO SP 12/152, fo. 97r; Pollen,
Unpublished Documents
, p. 27. Lady Vaux was indicted several times during her Southwark residence ‘for not resorting to the church according to the statutes’ (Hyland,
A Century of Persecution
, pp. 379, 381, 384–7, 401).

4
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 74r.

5
     
CSP Spanish
III, pp. 236, 364.

6
     Pollen, ‘Official Lists’, pp. 223, 229; Pollen,
Unpublished Documents
, pp. 27–8; Persons, ‘Memoirs’, 4, p. 47; Anstruther,
Seminary Priests
, pp. 261–2. For the alleged threat of torture, see Allen’s
True, Sincere, and Modest Defense
, in Kingdon,
The Execution of Justice
, pp. 75–6.

7
     
APC
, XIII, pp. 353, 360.

8
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 270.

9
     Pollen,
Unpublished Documents
, p. 28; Bowler and McCann,
Recusants in the Exchequer Pipe Rolls
, p. 180.

10
   Pollen, ‘Official Lists’, pp. 223, 228–9; PRO SP 12/168, f. 86r. For the dating, see D. Flynn, ‘“Out of Step”: Six Supplementary Notes on Jasper Heywood’, in McCoog,
The Reckoned Expense
, p. 185
n
.

11
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 269v.

12
   Ibid. For her jointure, Eleanor received a manor house and tenements in Ashby Magna, Leicestershire (PRO SP 12/183, f. 76r).

13
   Persons, ‘Memoirs’, 4, p. 49; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 278r.

14
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 59v, 72r.

15
   ‘Isham Correspondence’, p. 29. See too Finch,
Wealth
, p. 179.

16
   NRO YZ 5622, 8235–40.

17
   PRO SP 78/7, f. 35v.

18
   Knox,
Douay Diaries
, pp. 174–5. See too Anstruther,
Seminary Priests
, p. 252.

19
   Knox,
Douay Diaries
, p. lxxxii.

20
   Ibid., pp. lxxi–lxxvi.

21
   Ibid., pp. 186–7.

22
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 74r.

23
   Bossy, ‘The Heart of Robert Persons’, pp. 144–5; Philip Benedict,
Rouen during the Wars of Religion
(Cambridge, 1981), pp. 170–1, 178, 184, 195, 202; Hicks,
Letters and Memorials
, pp. 107–8.

24
   PRO SP 78/7, f. 93v. Cobham reported on 10 April (Old Style), which would be two days after 18 April (New Style).

25
   Cf. Duffy, ‘Allen, William’,
ODNB
; Mattingly, ‘William Allen and Catholic Propaganda in England’, pp. 335–9; Kingdon,
The Execution of Justice
, pp. xxxiii–xxxvii.

26
   Christie,
Letters of Sir Thomas Copley
, pp. xxxv–xxxvii, 136; Michael A. R. Graves, ‘Copley, Thomas’,
ODNB
.

27
   Christie,
Letters of Sir Thomas Copley
, p. xxxvi. For Polidore Morgan, see Anstruther,
Seminary Priests
, pp. 234–5; Pollen, ‘Official Lists’, pp. 219, 225, 230. For Nicholas Morgan: Poulton,
John Dowland
, pp. 419–20; W. H. Grattan Flood, ‘Nicholas Morgan of the Chapel Royal’,
The Musical Antiquary
4 (1912), pp. 59–60; W. Barclay Squire, ‘John Dowland’,
The Musical Times
37 (1896), pp. 793–4, and 38 (1897), pp. 92–3. For Roland Morgan: Anstruther,
Seminary Priests
, pp. 235–6. For Thomas Morgan: A. Plowden, ‘Morgan, Thomas’,
ODNB
; Bossy,
Under the Molehill
,
passim
;
A discoverie of the treasons
, sig. Biv. Cobham’s reference to surnames only might perhaps argue that he meant the most obvious Morgan, i.e. Thomas.

28
   Plowden,
Danger to Elizabeth
, p. 201. For Walsingham’s intelligence operation, see Bossy,
Under the Molehill
.

29
   Foley,
Records
, VI, p. 726; PRO SP 15/27A, f. 199r.

30
   PRO SP 78/8, f. 166r.

31
   Knox,
Douay Diaries
, pp. 192, 194.

32
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 83r, 187v, 209r; 39829, f. 13r; PRO C2/Eliz./U2/12.

5
Refuse of the World

1
     Tierney,
Dodd’s Church History
, III, p. 157.

2
     BL Lans. MS 103, ff. 25–8; Alford,
Burghley
, pp. 245–6. BL Add. MS 39828, f. 78r.

3
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 187v.

4
     Ibid., f. 84r.

5
     Jeaffreson,
Middlesex County Records
, I, pp. 143–4, 150, 158, 163, 167, 173; KB 9/666, pt I, no. 51; Bowler and McCann,
Recusants in the Exchequer Pipe Rolls
, p. 180. Lord Vaux and his household were sometimes referred to as ‘of Tottenham’, but usually as ‘of Hackney’.

6
     Foley,
Records
, V, p. 470; VI, p. 717.

7
     BL Harl. MS 286, ff. 52–3, 267r.

8
     PRO C 54/1162/29; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 86v. See too NRO YZ 8235. For Holborn as a rendezvous for the Catholic community, see McClain,
Lest We be Damned
, p. 147.

9
     
CSP Spanish
III, p. 236; Mattingly, ‘William Allen and Catholic Propaganda in England’, pp. 336–7.

10
   Caraman,
The Other Face
, p. 109.

11
   Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 59, 180; Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 98–9; BL Harl. MS 6998, ff. 65r, 71v. Also, McGrath, ‘The Bloody Questions Reconsidered’.

12
   Talbot,
Recusant Records
, p. 206; Anstruther,
Seminary Priests
, pp. 226–7;
A discoverie of the treasons
, sig. Bii.

13
   PRO SP 12/173, ff. 100–1. For Browne, see Knox,
Douay Diaries
, p. 199. Also pp. 204, 217.

14
   Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 242–3.

15
   Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 39
n
.

16
   Foley,
Records
, VI, pp. 17, 727; Anstruther,
Seminary Priests
, p. 135; J. G. Elzinga, ‘Howard, Philip, thirteenth earl of Arundel’,
ODNB
.

17
   Wilson,
Walsingham
, p. 180.

18
   PRO SP 12/163, f. 140v.

19
   27 Eliz. c. 1; Guy,
My Heart is My Own
, pp. 474–6; Rex,
Elizabeth
, pp. 187–9.